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4745 Jennifer Hunt
Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 417-457)
J61, J24
4743 Oliver Falck
Stephan Heblich
Alfred Lameli
Jens Suedekum
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239)
R23, Z10, J61
4742 Alexander M. Danzer
Firat Yaman
Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165)
J61, R23, F22
4741 Leo Kaas
Christian Manger
Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13 (1), 1-20)
C93, J71
4738 Peter Arcidiacono
V. Joseph Hotz
Songman Kang
Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 3-16)
I2, C81
4737 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Francesc Ortega
Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 57-76)
O15, J61, D31
4736 Alan Barrett
Jean Goggin
Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants
Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2010, 213 (1), R43-R51)
J61, O15
4735 Martin Kahanec
Michael P. Shields
The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:14)
J22, J61, F22
4734 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Ioannis Theodossiou
An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work
This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes ...
(revised version published as 'The Economics of Health and Safety at Work: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Theory and Policy' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013, 27 (1), 167 - 208)
J17, J28, J81, K32
4733 Elena Bardasi
Kathleen Beegle
Andrew Dillon
Pieter Serneels
Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 25 (3), 418-447)
J21, C83, C93
4732 Matthias Sutter
Simon Czermak
Francesco Feri
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order ...
(revised version published as 'Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 395-410)
C72, C91, C92
4731 Jozef Konings
Stijn Vanormelingen
The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 485-497 )
J24, J31, L22
4730 Bénédicte Apouey
Andrew E. Clark
Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (5), 516-538)
D1, I1, I3
4729 Peter Debaere
Holger Görg
Horst Raff
Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 78-102)
F12, L23
4728 Francesco Bogliacino
Marco Vivarelli
The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures
In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel ...
(published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2012, 51 (2), 96-113)
O33
4727 Bernard M. S. van Praag
Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research
In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 111-127)
D31, D62, D63, I31
4726 Alexander M. Danzer
Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and ...
(revised version published as 'Benefit Generosity and the Income Effect on Labour Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 1059-1084)
J26, I38, O15
4725 Martin Schlotter
Guido Schwerdt
Ludger Woessmann
Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (2), 109-137)
I20, C01
4723 Vincent Boucher
Yann Bramoullé
Habiba Djebbari
Bernard Fortin
Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation
We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (1), 91-109)
C31, I20, Z13
4719 Stephen Machin
Kjell G. Salvanes
Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform
Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24)
I2
4717 Elena Cottini
Claudio Lucifora
Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2013, 66 (4), 958-988)
C25, I10, J81, J28
4716 Leilanie Basilio
Thomas K. Bauer
Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (3), 245 - 264)
J61, J31, J24
4715 Ariel Kalil
Magne Mogstad
Mari Rege
Mark Votruba
Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data
This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (3), 1005-1027)
J12, J13
4714 Rolf Aaberge
Magne Mogstad
Vito Peragine
Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204)
D71, D91, I32
4713 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction
Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 597-626)
C23, J28, J33, M52, M54
4712 Laura Hospido
Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages
This paper presents a model for the heterogeneity and dynamics of the conditional mean and the conditional variance of standardized individual wages. In particular, a heteroskedastic autoregressive ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27 (3), 386-414)
C23, J31
4711 Olivier B. Bargain
Prudence Magejo
Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of ...
(published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122)
J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
4710 Björn Bartling
Ernst Fehr
Klaus M. Schmidt
Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 834-864)
C91, D86
4708 Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (1), 25-61)
D1, J11, J12, J13, E1
4707 Erkki Koskela
Jan König
Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 18-28)
E23, E24, J23, J33, J82
4706 Fernanda Brollo
Tommaso Nannicini
Roberto Perotti
Guido Tabellini
The Political Resource Curse
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1759-1796)
D72, D73, H40, H77
4704 Harley Frazis
Jay Stewart
Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?
Hours worked is an important economic indicator. In addition to being a measure of labor utilization, average weekly hours are inputs into measures of productivity and hourly wages, which are two key ...
(published in: Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 343-372)
C81, J22
4703 Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Xavier Ramos
Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses ...
(substantially revised version published as "Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion" in: M. Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2019.)
D3, D63, I31
4702 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Susanne Schennach
Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78 (3), 883-931)
C31, J13
4701 Susanne Ek Spector
Bertil Holmlund
Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1))
J31, J64, J65
4700 Marc Ferracci
Grégory Jolivet
Gerard J. van den Berg
Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets
We extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment status but also ...
(published as 'Evidence of Treatment Spillovers within Markets', 2014, 96 (5), 812 - 823)
C13, C14, C21, C31, J64
4698 Julie Zissimopoulos
James P. Smith
Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time
Money parents give their adult children may be important for the financing of a child's education or a first home, relaxing binding credit constraints or responding to a transitory income shock. ...
(published in: Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jantti (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, Policy and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011)
J10
4696 Alexander Mosthaf
Claus Schnabel
Jens Stephani
Low-Wage Careers: Are There Dead-End Firms and Dead-End Jobs?
Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung /Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43 (3), 231-249)
J30, J60
4695 Andrew J. Oswald
Stephen Wu
Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-being: Evidence from the USA
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions – asked by survey interviewers or ...
(published in: Science, 2010, 327 (5965), 576-579)
I31
4694 Sean Holly
M. Hashem Pesaran
Takashi Yamagata
Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK
This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to ...
(published as 'The spatial and temporal diffusion of house prices in the UK ' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69 (1), 2-23)
C21, C23
4693 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare ...
(published as 'Immigrants, Natives and Job Quality: Evidence from Spain' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (7), 753-775)
J28, J61, J81
4692 Florencia López Bóo
In School or at Work? Evidence from a Crisis
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schooling-employment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. The ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2012, 40 (3), 381-404)
I21, J31
4691 Jan C. van Ours
Sander Tuit
How Changes in Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Inflow into Unemployment
We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 105-107)
H55, J64, J65
4690 Alison L. Booth
Andrew Leigh
Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 236-238)
J71, C93
4689 Magne Mogstad
Matthew Wiswall
Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments
We examine instrumental variables estimation in situations where the instrument is only observed for a sub-sample, which is fairly common in empirical research. Typically, researchers simply limit ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (2), 186-189)
C31, C34
4688 Catia Batista
Pedro C. Vicente
Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104)
F22, O12, O15, O43, P16
4687 Simon Gächter
Christian Thöni
Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (3), 531-543)
J31, J71, C91, C92
4686 Alison L. Booth
Jan C. van Ours
Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 263-283)
J22, I31, J16
4685 Andrea Salvatori
Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing: International Longitudinal Evidence
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 667-678)
J28
4684 Dan-Olof Rooth
Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 399-409)
J21, J64, J71
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